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Quoted from Raw Story: As his reputation circles the bowl, one particular of President Donald Trump's legacy remains; toilet paper. That's the analysis from MS NOW Sunday morning on how Trump's trade war with Canada has Americans worrying once again about toilet paper — and raging at the...

The real Jesus, as portrayed in the four biographies of him in the New Testament, is a highly religious man in one and only one sense: He very strongly respects, believes in and depends on God. Otherwise, there is no religion in Jesus, as the term is commonly understood today. Of course, Jesus...

The word "religion" is an extremely loaded term in modern-day America. Various uses and misuses of this term leads to confusion and outright misinformation. Unfortunately, God is often equated in the same general idea as Islam, Christianity, Catholicism and similar, although Christians in...

Is it just me or, has anyone else noticed that in the past decade or two, the word "empathy", a term once seldom heard, has perhaps become the most over-hyped and certainly, most over-used word in the English language? Not long ago a major newspaper featured an article written by a "leading"...

Around 2000 years ago Jesus, apparently for the first time in human history, equated truth and freedom saying, "you will know the truth and the truth will make you free." This also implies the negative; if we don't know what is true, we have no hope of being free. And, this short idea is more...

In order to understand people like Jefferson and Madison, it is important to explore the common beliefs of their age, rather than inserting our own. The Supreme Court and our elected leaders have made many significant blunders since, simply by failing to consider the difference. The first...

The 1st Amendment of the Constitution states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." This amendment clearly meant something far different to the Constitutional framers than many today assume it means. Jefferson began...

In July 1822, James Madison wrote to Edward Livingston, ". . . Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government." This was about 31 years after Madison drafted the First Amendment (1791) and 35 after The Constitution was ratified (1787). Shortly before in October...

In the City of Nashville, practically everywhere there's a road, one is likely to find a church nearby. Some in poor neighborhoods, often badly in need of repair. Others are multi-million dollar edifices, with enough surrounding land to build an entire village of tiny homes for the homeless and...

Many people believe that immorality is only about various sexual activity. However, according to the Bible, immorality is largely about how individuals and nations treat immigrants, the sick, the poor and the otherwise marginalized and oppressed, as well as how individuals and nations treat the...